In addition to the book, Dale Carnegie also offers courses on this type of thing. They are a bit pricey but luckily my job paid for mine. This one is particulalrly good for new managers: http://www.dalecarnegie.com/M10/M10S2-0 1.jsp?code= LTM
Nobody is, thats why I said, by default, its marked as Ignore. Most users will basically click Next Next Next Finish, and expect their computers to be clean
Then after 2-3X running the program the user sees they still have spyware installed... then, not really knowing what it is, they change to remove...probably still without ever reading the description.
How would a corp version work though? would you whitelist a whole bunch of things and hope the spyware companies don't cotton on to your file naming convention?
After all, if most admins decide to allow VNC by default, who's to say the spyware makers next project wont also be called VNC. It does depend upon how they do the scanning, but implimenting the policy level I think your eseking could actually be worse.
By your reasoning I could just as easily make a spyware program called sol.exe and it won't be detected because we all know solitaire isn't spyware... Any good anti-spyware program will do more than just check against a list of filenames. There are many methods of determining if a file is actually what it is named.
I agree that for the everyday home user this is a good thing. In the corporate world, it would not be good for admins. What it says and how an end user interprets things are completely different...and you're assuming the user will read the description in the first place instead of just clicking remove, remove, remove.
On a machine infected with hundreds if not thousands of spyware instances, who is seriously going to sit there and read all the descriptions?
To any skeptics out there, there is a pre-order link on the official Doom III site with links to 3 sites, EB Games, Gamestop and Best buy... All 3 list ship dates of 8/3.
Schwartz IS the COO So said Sun Microsystems' president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz at an Asia Pacific press conference in Shanghai today.
This has been company policy for Cablevision's Optimum Online for quite some time. Back when I was working tech support for them we'd get calls from users who lost their internet access for one reason or another. Upon opening their case files we'd find out the reason and everyone once in a while the reason was 'virus'. This meant automatic elevation to second level support. We'd get off with the user, send email to second level and they would then call them back, reactivate their service and then work with them to get rid of the anti-virus. Note: They only did this for worm based viruses that had easy removal tools from symantec.
EVERY BAD NUMBER wastes money. A lot. We've seen those things about how you can screw TMs over by leaving the phone off the hook, etc. So, first of all, this would be a boon for the industry since it would weed out everyone they know would never, ever buy something over the phone. Far less wasted money in calling "Not Interesteds."
Might I remind you that it only takes one person to sign up for the do not call list yet there are often many people in a household. The one who signs the household up for the list might not always speak for the entire household.
Says it right there when you sign up: If you share any of these telephone numbers with others, please remember that you are registering for everyone who uses these lines.
Good point about the redhat suit, I wasn't even thinking about that. I should have pointed out that I was speaking in terms of the SCO vs IBM suit though. It's already been established that part of the code is the same in both unix/linux. Further proof of that is irrelevent. SCO's only hope now is if the GPL fails in court (which is very unlikely as was explained in the article from my previous post.)
And in other news... SCO Group to Shoot Babies By Jeff Heard Lindon, UT - The SCO Group announced the launch of a campaign to shoot 1% of all babies born in the US.
"Statistically, 1% of all people are Linux users. Rather than have these young hoodlums grow up without any respect for our intellectual property, we have chosen to nip it in the bud, as it were," said SCO's CEO, Darl McBride.
In addition, during the campaign announcement, SCO said that individuals could pay $2,499 per child for immunity from execution. "The price goes up to $5,200 dollars after that family's firstborn reaches 18 months, so it is in their advantage to pony up now," McBride continued.
The announcement brought cheers from SCO's chief investors and supporters, including the Gartner Group, and the BSA (Blind and Shortsighted Alliance). The organizations hailed it as "A brave, innovative step in the fight against intellectual piracy."
An RIAA spokesperson that was also present said that they were taking serious looks at SCO's proposal for fighting piracy in the music industry. "I think this will be a great deterrent. It will force parents to talk to their kids about the evils of intellectual piracy. In a free economy, this kind of thing is a must."
SCO, which stands for "Satanic Cultists' Operation," changed its name from Caldera in 2002, when it was acquired by an obscure organization which exclusively employs 1200-year-old undead trial lawyers. They are now embroiled in an ongoing legal battle with IBM, Red Hat, and the Open Source community over alleged copyright infringements embedded inside Linux.
Speculation has been abound about what will happen if SCO wins the lawsuit. Some have suggested that Linux will disappear entirely from the market. Others have speculated that if SCO loses the lawsuit, it will use its connections with the Underworld to assemble a massive Army of the Dead, march on IBM headquarters, and crush it into a smoldering oblivion. When asked about the possibility of an undead Armageddon scenario, a senior IBM spokesperson said, speaking in stereophonic bass-tones, "This will not happen."
When booed during the announcement by a large rotten tomato-wielding crowd, McBride exhorted, "I am disappointed with your reaction to our announcement. I must say that your decision to throw tomatoes does not seem conducive to the long-term survivability of your firstborn children."
SCO is stuck in a bit of a conundrum when it comes to the GPL. They use/distribute a whole lot of GPL code yet they want to render the GPL useless. In doing this, don't they open themselves up to being sued by everyone who has contributed code under the GPL?
More on the low tech side, I've only seen this in one bar but it works rather well. This bar I used to go to when I was in university had a light at each table. When you want another round, you turn the light on. I've also seen this on airplanes and in bowling alleys:p
This might actually be a good thing...If Microsoft gains enough leverage (read patents for stuff that AOL wants to use) AOL might actually have to break down and let other clients contact AIM users. Who knows though, it'll probably take a lot more than this.
RTFA the system has a camera positioned in the center console area pointed up at the roof so that the space in which the driver makes command gestures is essentially the same as where a gearshift lever might be. The thinking is to keep the operation of the system as familiar and natural as possible so that the driver won't be distracted from watching the road. (Another benefit is that since the gestures are made at a low level in the center of the vehicle other drivers are not likely to see them and interpret them as digital expletives.)
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Woops, sorry for broken link try this one:= LTM
http://www.dalecarnegie.com/M10/M10S2-01.jsp?code
In addition to the book, Dale Carnegie also offers courses on this type of thing. They are a bit pricey but luckily my job paid for mine.0 1.jsp?code= LTM
This one is particulalrly good for new managers:
http://www.dalecarnegie.com/M10/M10S2-
Nobody is, thats why I said, by default, its marked as Ignore.
Most users will basically click Next Next Next Finish, and expect their computers to be clean
Then after 2-3X running the program the user sees they still have spyware installed... then, not really knowing what it is, they change to remove...probably still without ever reading the description.
How would a corp version work though? would you whitelist a whole bunch of things and hope the spyware companies don't cotton on to your file naming convention?
After all, if most admins decide to allow VNC by default, who's to say the spyware makers next project wont also be called VNC.
It does depend upon how they do the scanning, but implimenting the policy level I think your eseking could actually be worse.
By your reasoning I could just as easily make a spyware program called sol.exe and it won't be detected because we all know solitaire isn't spyware... Any good anti-spyware program will do more than just check against a list of filenames. There are many methods of determining if a file is actually what it is named.
I agree that for the everyday home user this is a good thing. In the corporate world, it would not be good for admins. What it says and how an end user interprets things are completely different...and you're assuming the user will read the description in the first place instead of just clicking remove, remove, remove.
On a machine infected with hundreds if not thousands of spyware instances, who is seriously going to sit there and read all the descriptions?
I hope in the final version this is controllable by group policy because it's detecting all of my management apps such as vnc/dameware as spyware.
On a sidenote: Funny how they forgot to change the processname and still shows up as GIANTAntiSpywareMain.exe in task manager
They've also posted a newsgroup where you can go and chat about it: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Google-Desktop -Search
To any skeptics out there, there is a pre-order link on the official Doom III site with links to 3 sites, EB Games, Gamestop and Best buy... All 3 list ship dates of 8/3.
Schwartz IS the COO
So said Sun Microsystems' president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz at an Asia Pacific press conference in Shanghai today.
Scott McNealy is still CEO last I checked
This has been company policy for Cablevision's Optimum Online for quite some time. Back when I was working tech support for them we'd get calls from users who lost their internet access for one reason or another. Upon opening their case files we'd find out the reason and everyone once in a while the reason was 'virus'. This meant automatic elevation to second level support. We'd get off with the user, send email to second level and they would then call them back, reactivate their service and then work with them to get rid of the anti-virus. Note: They only did this for worm based viruses that had easy removal tools from symantec.
EVERY BAD NUMBER wastes money. A lot. We've seen those things about how you can screw TMs over by leaving the phone off the hook, etc. So, first of all, this would be a boon for the industry since it would weed out everyone they know would never, ever buy something over the phone. Far less wasted money in calling "Not Interesteds."
Might I remind you that it only takes one person to sign up for the do not call list yet there are often many people in a household. The one who signs the household up for the list might not always speak for the entire household.
Says it right there when you sign up: If you share any of these telephone numbers with others, please remember that you are registering for everyone who uses these lines.
FYI Isonews still lives
Take out the hard drive
Put it in another PC
Wipe it clean
Put it back in
Now when you click any key, you are agreeing to nothing.
Good point about the redhat suit, I wasn't even thinking about that.
I should have pointed out that I was speaking in terms of the SCO vs IBM suit though. It's already been established that part of the code is the same in both unix/linux. Further proof of that is irrelevent. SCO's only hope now is if the GPL fails in court (which is very unlikely as was explained in the article from my previous post.)
Whether or not the code is the same is irrelevant.
The register has a very good article on why.
but I'm not a real man you insensitive clod!
And in other news...
SCO Group to Shoot Babies
By Jeff Heard
Lindon, UT - The SCO Group announced the launch of a campaign to shoot 1% of all babies born in the US.
"Statistically, 1% of all people are Linux users. Rather than have these young hoodlums grow up without any respect for our intellectual property, we have chosen to nip it in the bud, as it were," said SCO's CEO, Darl McBride.
In addition, during the campaign announcement, SCO said that individuals could pay $2,499 per child for immunity from execution. "The price goes up to $5,200 dollars after that family's firstborn reaches 18 months, so it is in their advantage to pony up now," McBride continued.
The announcement brought cheers from SCO's chief investors and supporters, including the Gartner Group, and the BSA (Blind and Shortsighted Alliance). The organizations hailed it as "A brave, innovative step in the fight against intellectual piracy."
An RIAA spokesperson that was also present said that they were taking serious looks at SCO's proposal for fighting piracy in the music industry. "I think this will be a great deterrent. It will force parents to talk to their kids about the evils of intellectual piracy. In a free economy, this kind of thing is a must."
SCO, which stands for "Satanic Cultists' Operation," changed its name from Caldera in 2002, when it was acquired by an obscure organization which exclusively employs 1200-year-old undead trial lawyers. They are now embroiled in an ongoing legal battle with IBM, Red Hat, and the Open Source community over alleged copyright infringements embedded inside Linux.
Speculation has been abound about what will happen if SCO wins the lawsuit. Some have suggested that Linux will disappear entirely from the market. Others have speculated that if SCO loses the lawsuit, it will use its connections with the Underworld to assemble a massive Army of the Dead, march on IBM headquarters, and crush it into a smoldering oblivion. When asked about the possibility of an undead Armageddon scenario, a senior IBM spokesperson said, speaking in stereophonic bass-tones, "This will not happen."
When booed during the announcement by a large rotten tomato-wielding crowd, McBride exhorted, "I am disappointed with your reaction to our announcement. I must say that your decision to throw tomatoes does not seem conducive to the long-term survivability of your firstborn children."
I think if this were posted on fark it would have the headline "obvious"
SCO is stuck in a bit of a conundrum when it comes to the GPL. They use/distribute a whole lot of GPL code yet they want to render the GPL useless. In doing this, don't they open themselves up to being sued by everyone who has contributed code under the GPL?
It's a lose/lose situation for them.
More on the low tech side, I've only seen this in one bar but it works rather well. :p
This bar I used to go to when I was in university had a light at each table. When you want another round, you turn the light on.
I've also seen this on airplanes and in bowling alleys
A quick search on good returns these: Do it yourself desk exercises
Desk Exercise of the Day
And here's the google cache of a list of 10 more desk exercises
Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture?O SP4.jpg
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/shared/news2003/OSP/
Is it me or does this seem like nothing more than making a movie poster an RFID and a cellphone a portable reader?
This might actually be a good thing...If Microsoft gains enough leverage (read patents for stuff that AOL wants to use) AOL might actually have to break down and let other clients contact AIM users.
Who knows though, it'll probably take a lot more than this.
Here's the article he's getting his info from in case anyone is interested.
RTFA
the system has a camera positioned in the center console area pointed up at the roof so that the space in which the driver makes command gestures is essentially the same as where a gearshift lever might be. The thinking is to keep the operation of the system as familiar and natural as possible so that the driver won't be distracted from watching the road. (Another benefit is that since the gestures are made at a low level in the center of the vehicle other drivers are not likely to see them and interpret them as digital expletives.)